Author Archives: JJD
Sunday night ambition
My post on Friday was kind of a downer. Sorry about that — I was having a moment. But things are better now. MUCH better. There’s nothing quite like logging in on a Sunday morning, expecting to spend the day reviewing documents, only to see an email from the partners saying, “I think we’re set; […]
Uncle Jason likes worms! (or, Proof that I’m an awesome uncle)
So here’s the lunch buzz at Heather’s house this week. (And for those who haven’t met these kids, Shae is 4, Jaron is 7, and Brynn is 9; Adri is a newborn.) Shae: “Hey Mom, Rachel found a worm at the park, and she was holding it. We should have brought it home for Dad. […]
Still here
I promise, people, I’m not dead or boring — just completely swamped at work. The last couple of weeks, and this week in particular, have been one of those periods when I feel like I earn every last one of those “big bucks” they pay me. From a sheer hours perspective, it hasn’t been as bad […]
In the press
One of the partners I work for is featured in The National Law Journal‘s list of DC Deal Makers of the Year. The write-up goes beyond Catherine’s work, though, and mentions several of the recent large deals that the firm has handled in the past eighteen months. And guess what? I got a shout-out: In […]
Catching Up
I’m apparently terrible at catching up. Here are links to a couple of new posts about Vietnam. I need to focus on getting through the rest of them or it’ll be Christmas by the time I’m finished! (I’ve left the other catch-up posts on this list, too, in case you missed them.) Bai Tu Long Bay — […]
Pippin, Vanya et al., and another Michelin star
As much as I love the Met Museum, what I really love in New York are the performing arts and the food. So after spending this morning at the Met, I walked back down to Midtown and spent the rest of the day eating and seeing two wonderful shows. The first show I saw was […]
Punk and bagpipes at the Met
There’s nothing quite like an unstructured Saturday in New York — especially when it follows a super-structured and tedious day of recruiting. After spending all day yesterday interviewing eager young law students (and then spending much of the night making notes and getting ready for all the reference checks and meetings with the hiring partners […]
In which Jean Valjean doesn’t sing, but Rory does.
I’m in New York right now, sitting in my hotel suite on the 20th floor above Times Square. Tomorrow I’ll be interviewing kids from Columbia Law School who want to come to work at the firm. The interviews start early, so I came up in advance. And, as I always try to do, I came sufficiently in […]
The Ride: Mason Neck
This morning dawned grey and chilly and very humid. I wasn’t exactly ready to get up, but I’d agreed to meet up with some friends from the ward for a Saturday morning bike ride. We left a little after 7:00am and returned right before 11am, and in the intervening three-ish hours we made it down […]
The "mot juste"
Earlier this week I called my sister Ashley as I was driving home from work. It was about 10:30pm and I was just leaving the office and needed to do a little grocery shopping before going home and going to bed. As you might imagine, the conversation started off with my muttering some remark along the […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 